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ABSTRACT
Against the backdrop of increasing public and social interests in migration, this article conducts a systematic review of research addressing the topic of migration published in top public administration journals since 2000. This article examines five aspects of the migration literature in public administration: the trends of migration studies, lines of inquiry, theoretical groundings, and research designs, methods, and empirical evidence. Based on the findings, the authors discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the literature and offer straightforward suggestions for future migration research in the field.
Notes
1. Refugees are initially asylum seekers but not all asylum seekers become refugees ultimately (IOM, Citation2018).
2. Occasionally, the official webpages of the authors of the obtained articles were visited to collect information regarding their disciplinary fields.
3. Despite the efforts to focus exclusively on public administration, a substantial number of articles published in the PA journals focus on the policy process and policies in their inquiries. Therefore, public policy theories were included in the typology.
4. This results in the sudden increase in the number of articles in 2017.
5. If the special issue (the outlier) is excluded from the counting.
6. Only the main authors (up to first three authors) per article were counted. Some authors come from a multidisciplinary background and hold joint appointments across departments.
7. Editor’s Note: Also see “The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Refugee and Immigrant Integration: A Qualitative Exploratory Study of Seoul, South Korea,” by Valero, Yates, Kim, Park, Jung, Kim and Cho in this Special Issue of IJPA.